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In the 1990s, Clifford Adams initiated the '''Use'''net '''Mod'''eration project that would allow users to share rating, editing, and eventually summary/change information about [[Usenet]] postings.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Clifford Adams |title=WhyUseMod |url=https://www.usemod.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UseModWiki/WhyUseMod |publisher=UseModWiki |access-date=8 November 2023}}</ref> It was replaced by the concept of [[wiki]]s in 1999, and the development of UseModWiki started on October 11 as a simplified [[Fork (software development)|fork]] of AtisWiki. From version 0.4 ("WikiFour") in November 1999, more functions and improvements were introduced to UseModWiki.<ref name="history">{{cite web |title=UseModWiki/History |url=https://www.usemod.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UseModWiki/History |publisher=UseModWiki |access-date=8 November 2023}}</ref> In 2000, the second UseModWiki website [[MeatballWiki]] was launched and hosted in ''usemod.com'', along with the official website of UseModWiki.

In 2001, as Adams was both of the UseModWiki developer and a [[Wikipedia community|Wikipedian]], he brought many improvements for the usages of an encyclopedia to v0.91 and v0.92, especially "[[Wikipedia:Glossary#Free link|free link]]s" that uses double square-brackets (e.g., <code><nowiki>[[Wikipedia]]</nowiki></code>) as an option along with [[camel case]] for linking to another page, supplementing the older functionality of using [[camel case]].<ref name="old_versions">{{cite web |title=UseModWiki/OldVersions |url=https://www.usemod.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UseModWiki/OldVersions |publisher=UseModWiki |access-date=8 November 2023}}</ref><ref name="aosa" /> In September 2003, after two years of development from the previous version, the release of version 1.0 introduced many new features including [[CSS]], [[RSS]], file uploads, [[UTF-8]], and more.<ref>{{cite web |title=NewFeatures |url=https://www.usemod.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UseModWiki/NewFeatures |publisher=UseModWiki |access-date=8 November 2023}}</ref>

The development was then halted, and a [[cross-site scripting]] vulnerability (CVE-2004-1397) was discovered in December 2004.<ref>{{cite web |title=CVE-2004-1397 |url=https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-1397 |publisher=[[Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures|CVE]] |access-date=28 March 2023 |date=2005-02-12 |id={{CVE|2004-1397}} |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author1=office.bomis.com |title=Wikipedia: HomePage |url=https://www.editthisnft.com/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi?%3Cscript%3Ealert('This%5Cxa0pre-UseModWiki%5Cxa01.0.1%5Cxa0site%5Cxa0has%5Cxa0no%5Cxa0XSS%5Cxa0vulnerability!')%3C/script%3E |publisher=[[Jimmy Wales]] |access-date=28 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230328065548/https://www.editthisnft.com/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi?%3Cscript%3Ealert%28%27This%5Cxa0pre-UseModWiki%5Cxa01.0.1%5Cxa0site%5Cxa0has%5Cxa0no%5Cxa0XSS%5Cxa0vulnerability%21%27%29%3C/script%3E |archive-date=28 March 2023 |quote=This pre-UseModWiki 1.0.1 site has no XSS vulnerability!}}</ref> It was patched in July 2007 when Markus Lude took over the project of UseModWiki from Clifford Adams, with the release of version 1.0.1. Only bug fixing versions were released since that.<ref name="history"/> The official ___domain was moved to ''usemod.org'' in late September 2023, and a minor update for that change was released later in November.<ref>{{cite web |title=UseMod Wiki: UseModWiki |url=https://www.usemod.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl |publisher=UseModWiki |access-date=8 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230925224906/https://www.usemod.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl |archive-date=25 September 2023}}</ref>